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Ammex, is there still an LEO thread? Dark days.

Don't even know. Almost scared to go looking for it. Couldn't imagine the leader of my country starting a war on police, men and women who give up so much to serve their country. It spills over the border as well, but it's definitely not the same. Feel for all the boys in blue in the US.

Quick post. We should see anonymized vids of all citizen encounters with the police so we can all learn from the ones which go smoothly and understand the scope of the problematic ones. Somewhat serious.

I got caught in the rain at Clearwater Beach last night. i was stuck under a shelter for a while. Pano of the approaching rain clouds and beach:http://m.imgur.com/i5bboih
A stranger walked through the frame twice.

Quick post. We should see anonymized vids of all citizen encounters with the police so we can all learn from the ones which go smoothly and understand the scope of the problematic ones. Somewhat serious.

I got caught in the rain at Clearwater Beach last night. i was stuck under a shelter for a while. Pano of the approaching rain clouds and beach:http://m.imgur.com/i5bboih
A stranger walked through the frame twice.

Supplement marketing is no different than 99.9999% of other marketing.

Testimonial: I was obese and ate nothing but buckets of chicken every day until I found ~Miracle Pill~ ! Miracle Pill Changed everything! Just one Miracle pill a day for 90 days and I lost all the weight and am now working as an underwear model for Calvin Klein!*

*Weight loss program also included 3 hours of daily High Intensity Interval Training and controlled diet of Kale and chicken breasts over the 90 days. Not a real person. Testimonial given by paid actor. Miracle Pill is a Homeopathic supplement and it's claims are not supported by any studies. Miracle Pill has not been reviewed or approved by the FDA. Miracle Pill may or may not cause the following side effects: Weight Loss, Weight Gain, Loss of hair, Loss of libido, Diarrhea, Constipation, Bloating, Bouts of depression, A significant drop in your net worth, Mild Lycanthropy, as well as Hallucinations of actual weight loss,

Remember those fat binding tablets? But if you ate too much fat you got the squirties. Yeah I skipped those.

I'll say what was nuts was Met-RX Thermicore back 15 years ago. IDK what it was bout it (seemed strong), as my caffiene tolerance has reached legendary prestige level and if I remember right it was not supposed to be dosed too strong on other ingredients. Did not stop me from getting hungry TBH.

The most important aspect of weight training; whether for the athlete, bodybuilder, or average person is to better ones health and ability without injury. - Bill Pearl

Ironwill2008 is surely doing RDL's and eating eggs and bacon somewhere right now.

Had a good one the other day from a local coffee shop, the "mega" waffle, was like a 10" Belgian waffle topped with fresh strawberries, whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, dark chocolate sauce, white chocolate sauce, warm nutella & finally a few kinder bueno bars !!!

Had that & a hazelnut latte, then went home & sat on my arse all day binge watching the entire 4th season of Game of Thrones, was a great day

Ah. that's better. I'm in bb.com black mode now. Any info on PC laptops would be appreciated. I'm thinking about switching things up again. I was strictly PC for years but that was years ago.

Hey, Kure! Have you been playing soccer?

Nitro, yeah, that was a random guy. As I panned from left to right he walked in front of me, right to left, and then he circled behind me and emerged on my right, I think. (I could be wrong.) I'm going to replicate that with family next time.

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Nothing exciting to report diet and gym-wise. I'm cutting mochis out of my diet for a while. They had become a new obsession.

My parents are taking swimming lessons and my mom swam for the first time ever on Tuesday. Dad knows how to swim. He just wanted some formal training.

My 2 cents - It's not just a matter of willpower. Just like it's pretty useless (and insulting) to tell a clinically depressed person to "just get over it," or a person with learning disability to "try harder and focus." They have abnormalities in their brain that they are fighting against, and it is not as simple for their brain to function as if those differences didn't exist (quote and link to paper below reinforcing why I feel that's an adequate comparison).

That being said, I believe that just as the brain can adopt a dysfunctional state due to undesirable variables, that the reverse can be true when those variables are accounted for and improved upon. For instance, CBT for a depressed person, or coping mechanisms and specialized learning strategies for the learning disabled.

I feel like the reason why I am no longer fat is because of the support I had here, from my man, my friends on facebook, and constant immersion in fitness...it's my most read subject and I keep up to date with it through various means. That environment allowed me to stick with it long enough to override negative patterns I had developed when fat / becoming fat. **But I still battle with some of those old patterns, and still have to count calories every so often to keep myself on track**.

Tracking calories is one of my coping mechanisms to keep me accountable for what I eat. Obviously, that's not practical for everyone for various reasons...and they will need mechanisms that better serve their situation.

Anyway, as for research ...

Negative associations between obesity, physical health, and life expectancy are common knowledge, but more recent studies have also shown that, on average, being overweight: (1) reduces attention, working memory, executive function, and inhibitory control among otherwise healthy participants, and (2) increases the risk of developing early onset dementia.

The current experiment employed advanced neuroimaging techniques and two different body composition measures to establish possible mechanisms for obesity-related cognitive, behavioral, and neural differences among healthy adults.

Therefore, interpreted in the context of previous research, these findings suggest that changes in body composition may be cyclically (causally) related to alterations in brain structure and function that could decrease self-control and promote further unhealthy behavior. http://journal.frontiersin.org/artic...016.00234/full

TLDR:

They might not be able to help it because of structural differences in the brain that make it more difficult to resist excessive eating and other harmful behaviors.

That environment allowed me to stick with it long enough to override negative patterns I had developed when fat / becoming fat. **But I still battle with some of those old patterns, and still have to count calories every so often to keep myself on track**.

I was just reading about this in an unrelated topic. But this is the main way out IMO. Wish I could remember where, I would link. Although I have a suspicion it was in a book.

You have to initially take action many times without the benefit of belief or understanding. Build some basic skills and not quit, at least for too long. Then the improvement begin to take hold. This develops some feedback you can do it and gives you more confidence. Changes to a belief in yourself and your new habits. Then refine and build on that foundation. Then as a changed person continue to pursue knowledge and refinements to your new outlook, abilities, and person.

I also agree that with the skills built that setbacks can be spotted and overcome much easier than they could in the past. Especially if you have a good support system and have the sense to use it. But we must be fearless. I think fearlessness is a big part of why some people escape the fat suit and keep it off. I mean look at all those steps you took to progress, every one of them required you too take risks, put yourself out there, and open yourself to failing, criticism, and looking at parts of your old self that probably did not make you feel good at the time.

It's a courageous thing you did.

I'm going to go post in the misc for about 20,000 posts to work off the WK feels. But it's the truth IMO.

The most important aspect of weight training; whether for the athlete, bodybuilder, or average person is to better ones health and ability without injury. - Bill Pearl

Ironwill2008 is surely doing RDL's and eating eggs and bacon somewhere right now.

I was just reading about this in an unrelated topic. But this is the main way out IMO. Wish I could remember where, I would link. Although I have a suspicion it was in a book.

You have to initially take action many times without the benefit of belief or understanding. Build some basic skills and not quit, at least for too long. Then the improvement begin to take hold. This develops some feedback you can do it and gives you more confidence. Changes to a belief in yourself and your new habits. Then refine and build on that foundation. Then as a changed person continue to pursue knowledge and refinements to your new outlook, abilities, and person.

I also agree that with the skills built that setbacks can be spotted and overcome much easier than they could in the past. Especially if you have a good support system and have the sense to use it. But we must be fearless. I think fearlessness is a big part of why some people escape the fat suit and keep it off. I mean look at all those steps you took to progress, every one of them required you too take risks, put yourself out there, and open yourself to failing, criticism, and looking at parts of your old self that probably did not make you feel good at the time.

It's a courageous thing you did.

I'm going to go post in the misc for about 20,000 posts to work off the WK feels. But it's the truth IMO.

lol!

You have a really good point with everything you said. The fear of failure can be paralytic. Had 0 confidence and pretty much wrote myself off as FFL at one point (fat fo' lyfe). This thread though, whenever anyone complimented my progress or lifts, I got that feedback that change is possible. That I was wrong about myself. And seeing that everyone else here had been fat at one point...couldn't deny I was full of chit if I kept thinking it was impossible for me.

So, much agreed about courage...and thank you for all the support and subjecting yourself to WK feels on my behalf haha! And all the infinite knowledge bombs you've dropped...

Had 0 confidence and pretty much wrote myself off as FFL at one point (fat fo' lyfe). This thread though, whenever anyone complimented my progress or lifts, I got that feedback that change is possible. That I was wrong about myself. And seeing that everyone else here had been fat at one point...couldn't deny I was full of chit if I kept thinking it was impossible for me

Same for me, I just got so fed up in 2008-9 though. I had got off a ton of weight and then had to quit smoking. Evidently replacing cigarettes with Trail mix is a bad idea??!? And gained it all back +20. I got so fed up with it, and angry about it, I just decided phuck it, I'm going all out. Bought Adkins for life, and went for it like a terrier on a beef bone.

It helped that I am an extrovert, not that putting myself out there was easy. At least I learned how to work a barbell in high school and had some weaksauce training behind me. Srs made it a lot easier. Who knows why lifting weights caught my attention. Probably Rocky, LMAO, playing that theme song on the record player of peace and doing push ups in my room in 79. Lifting weights in the garage. Hitting the gym at the high school, my buddy Gus had an older brother taught us how not to kill ourselves. I was height weight proportionate then, Gus was heavy, but his older brother was jacked and tan. He was one of those guys who was a Jr but yet somehow a fully grown man who looked like he was 30. Probably had a full beard at 11 LMAO.

The most important aspect of weight training; whether for the athlete, bodybuilder, or average person is to better ones health and ability without injury. - Bill Pearl

Ironwill2008 is surely doing RDL's and eating eggs and bacon somewhere right now.

MissLadyJ, I was lucky because I had a surge of hormones and long-unfelt emotions to shock my brain chemistry initially. I was off of everyone's radars for years/nowhere to be found on social media, and suddenly i emerged on a male friend's radar as this unrecognizable depressed fat person, lol. The motivation to look like my old self again was pretty strong.

I picked this up before entering the thread:

also this!
Related static images have the caption "firenado". I didn't see the tumbleweeds all set ablaze, but maybe that happened?

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